Your Digest for Thursday, Apr 04, 2024 09:59 AM


  1. peripheral oedema.
  2. Other associations

Source
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Part Blood supply Contents Symptoms
Anterior limb Mainly LS branches of MCA Frontopontine fibers
Anterior thalamic radiation
Confusion, agitation, dysarthria
Genu LS branches of MCA Corticobulbar tracts (i.e descending tracts to the cranial nerve nuclei)ra Deficiencies of facial expression, swallowing and mastication
Posterior limb LS Branches of MCA
Anterior Choroidal artery (branch of ICA)
1. Descending motor tracts in anterior half,
2. ascending sensory relays in posterior 1/3
Pure motor stroke
Mixed sensory motor stroke
  1. hemianopic visual loss (is an anterior circulation symdrome! not posterior circulation)